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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives. - Author object (415)

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. - Author object (415)

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do. - Author object (415)

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. - Author object (415)

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Author object (363)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Author object (363)

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. - Author object (363)

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Author object (363)

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. - Author object (363)

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Author object (363)

Passion is the genesis of genius. - Author object (363)

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. - Author object (363)

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. - Author object (57)

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - Author object (57)

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. - Author object (57)

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. - Author object (57)

The earth laughs in flowers. - Author object (57)

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Author object (57)

Life is a journey, not a destination. - Author object (57)

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Author object (57)