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"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
"One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen."
"A man should never neglect his family for business."
"Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice."
"Fun is about as good a habit as there is."
"It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities."
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
"My job is to take care of the possible and to trust God with the impossible."
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
"Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly."
"Truth never damages a cause that is just."
"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'"
"The more one judges, the less one loves."
