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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we're going to have to start with children.