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 When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.  How long can you be cute? Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world. I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it. When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live. Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown. Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do. Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing. I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I gained one. - Voltaire Danger can never by overcome without taking risks. A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. Danger for danger's sake is senseless. I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me. Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. Great thoughts always come from the heart. Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof! Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. For me, happiness came from prayer to a kindly God, faith in a kindly God, love for my fellow man, and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there, either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness. 
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