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"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities."
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law."
"If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you."
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life."
"They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life."
"The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey."
"Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us."
"Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given."
"As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead."
"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event."
"More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use."
"On your daily journeys, listen to those inner signals that help you make the right choices no matter what anyone thinks."
"He who demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which he himself is to pass."
"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"
"He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward."
"If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?"
"If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit."
"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit."
