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 The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. - Voltaire  Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect you have enough. We're all in this together ... alone. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. If you have a good name, if you are right more often than you are wrong, if your children respect you, if your grandchildren are glad to see you, if your friends can count on you and you can count on them in time of trouble, if you can face your God and say "I have done my best," then you are a success. To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting! Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity. I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers? Soul appears when we make room for it. One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it. Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down. Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. I learn by going where I have to go. The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. - Voltaire One of the things my life has taught me is how important it is to try to say, "I love you" in ways that can be preserved, looked at, and read when you are alone or when there is adversity or when circumstances bring separation. In any case, . . . saying "I love you" is one of the "secrets" of the happy marriage that Ronnie and I have shared. Ronnie's letters move me to this day. They are his gift to me across the years, and throughout the decades of love. Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones. The American's conversation is much like his courtship ... He gives an inkling and watches for a reaction; if the weather looks fair, he inkles a little more. Wishing neither to intrude nor be intruded upon, he advances by stages of acceptance, by levels of agreement, by steps of concurrence. 
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