"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth."
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"Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions."
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"I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
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"I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions."
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"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words."
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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"No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!"
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"The greatest happiness is family happiness."
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"Don't always try to be popular. It isn't possible for everyone to like you. It's far more important for you to like yourself. And when you respect yourself, strangely, you get more respect than when you court it from others."
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"I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped."
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"If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others."
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"A person's self-concept is the core of his personality."
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"The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all."
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"When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all."
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"There is such a thing as bad publicity."
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"They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything."
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"Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams."
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"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."
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"I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune."
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"For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure, despite the fact that each of us has a right, and an obligation, to rectify any other mistake we make in life."
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