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 Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.  Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?" I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many people don't have that privilege.' Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. I was afraid to write Fear of Flying; ergo, I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. We are so outnumbered there's only one thing to do. We must attack. One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us. Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. He who can lick can bite. The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. 
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