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When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.