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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Talent is the gift plus the passion a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
You can't be brave if you're only had wonderful things happen to you.
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorence.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
You can tell a lot about a town from how it treats its visitors.
In a courtroom, whoever tells the best story wins.
Usefulness is not impaired by imperfection. You can drink from a chipped cup.
The thing women have yyet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
I listen to critics because often they're a good source of information for what you have to do differently.
There is great audacity in the willingness to change, and more than a little optimism.
The ten commandments aren't prefaced with "If you're in the mood."
Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.
You can't have a multiracial country with a monoracial leadership.
Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.
Most people don't mind criticism as long as it's about someone else.
Spring inspires much wanderlust, a lot of gardening and a little bit of bad poetry.
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
A window of opportunity won't open itself.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
People used to live lives of quiet desperation now they go on talk shows.
Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.
The ego is the ugly little troll that lives underneath the bridge between your mind and your heart.
Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than to a king's banquet a hundred years ago.
In the New Year, may your right hand always be streched out in friendship, but never in want.
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can.
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety.
Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.
Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.
Journalism is sculptured in snow.
A common enemy does not a true friendship make.
We're all only fragile threads, but what a tapestry we make.
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
Before you can win, you have to beleive you are worthy.
Peace has no borders.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us gears we never use.
The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
Status symbols are poor excuses for values.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just Watch!"
Ideas matter in American politics, but results matter more.
Thanksgiving dinner is truly a magical meal. It keeps reappearing for days.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.
reverence for the past is important, but so is regard for the future.
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
On the dance floor, as in life, you're only as good as your partner.
The definition of the golden age of anything is when you were there.
Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
There is no security quite as comfortable and undemanding as the kind you feel among old friends.
Never forget that music is much too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.
The moon is always jealous of the heart of the day, just as the sun always longs something dark and deep.
There's an intrinsic value in doing something without being the best as it.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments.
Change is what keeps us fresh and innovative stale. Change is what keeps us young.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.
The sense of beauty is a tuning fork in the brain that hums when we stumble on something beautiful.
Humor, you can't exist without it. You have to be ble to laugh at yourself. Otherwise, you suffer.
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