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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that.



I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.



If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.



The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.



I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.



You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.



I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water



We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends, and living our lives



Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.



I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.



Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning



A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.



Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.



Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.



Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.








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