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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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I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.

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Laugh as much as you can.

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They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

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I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

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Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

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At our best, we are all teachers

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A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.

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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

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I've lived many places on the planet, and I still have friends in many places.

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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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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

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I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

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The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

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