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Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
We cannot all be masters.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
You build on cost and you borrow on value.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Time bears away all things.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old . . . If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.


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