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"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."
"Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die."
"There is always a better way."
"Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation."
"The way to find your calling is to look at the way you were created. Your gifts have not emerged by accident."
"Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood."
"The only way love can last a lifetime is if it’s unconditional."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
"The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways."
"I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once."
"Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way."
"We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel."
"Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control."
"My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone."
"We are all beggars, each in his own way."
"Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out."
"You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way."
"In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me."
"Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!"
"Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you."
