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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

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A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.

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Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

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Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

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It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

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Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

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I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

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I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

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This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

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If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

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I like to know what's happening.

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Facts can obscure the truth.

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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

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

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Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

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