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Development involves giving up a smaller story in order to wake up to a larger story.
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.
It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.
When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.
Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.
Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.
We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.
Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.
No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate.
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.