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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Be as you wish to seem.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

The more you know the less you need to say.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.