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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?

Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Go ahead, make my day.

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

When we blame, we give away our power.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis, and I don't deserve that, either.

In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who loves us in spite of what we are.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.