"The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons."
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
"Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others."
"What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?"
"Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading."
"God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday."
"I will preach with my brush."
"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work."
"We are ready to despair too soon, we are ready to say, ‘What’s the good of doing anything?’ Hope is the virtue we should cultivate most in this present day and age."
"I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital."
"Love Fades [10w] Like our love,Chinese painters show distance in faded grays."
"Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past."
"We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant."
"It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin."
"Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read."
"AMTRAK: See America at see level... even though we cost twice as much as a plane and get you there 3 days later."
"When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."
"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."
"Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong."
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