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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

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I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

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Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

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The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

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I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

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I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

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Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

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It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

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The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

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I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

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Yet it is only love which sets us free.

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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

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The desire to reach hearts is wise

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