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Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen, how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.

I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. The Books in My Life.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

In those days he was wiser than he is now he used frequently to take my advice.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

You can buy a person's time, you can buy their physical presence at a given place, you can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour. But you can not buy enthusiasm you can not buy loyalty. You can not buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.