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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

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I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

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Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

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Everybody is worth everything.

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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. 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." That's how you get to know yourself.

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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

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The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

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I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

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