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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")

To those who are given much, much is expected.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.