"Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart."
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"Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature."
"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."
"Man is not made for defeat."
"Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond."
"Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it."
"I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors."
"A new heart for a New Year, always!"
"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."
"I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself."
"Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives ."
"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
"The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important."
"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
"Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?"
"It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?"
"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
"Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite."