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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.