"The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better."
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"We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman."
"I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way."
"Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life."
"I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful."
"By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on."
"The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you'll find the rest of the journey much easier."
"She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful."
"A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big."
"Life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit."
"You know what I'm going to have on my gravestone? 'She did it the hard way.'"
"I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life."
"Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it."
"Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others."
"If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way."
"Time-Use it or lose it. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time."
"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
"But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works in a foreign land-will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace."
"Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings."
"The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can."