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"May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift."
"I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine."
"The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all."
"I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little."
"By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution."
"It's still magic even if you know how it's done."
"This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done."
"I’ve learned that by doing things, things get done."
"He that has done nothing has known nothing."
"I'm not looking for anything. If you start looking for something specific, then you take providence right out of it. You can't completely control it. Otherwise you'd make the same kind of movie over and over again, which some people say I've done."
"I believe therapy can be done more rapidly. I'm into your finding the source of what's making you think and feel the way you do and shifting it quickly."
"Unfortunately, I made the mistake at one point of putting my address on the back of one of my albums, just to find out what would happen. I received a lot of disturbing mail and calls. Actually, I was living in a hotel, so it was easy enough to find the number. I got a kick out of it for a while. Then I realized what I'd done."
"The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God."
"The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance."
"The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job."
"The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done."
"Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done."
"Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine."
"Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said."
"First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be."
