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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help. But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born. No matter what, Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother." There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother's cookbook, and her father's checkbook. I know lots more old drunks than old doctors. Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be. Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. If you knew how cowardly your enemy is, you would slap him. The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. The first Sunday I sang in the church choir, two hundred people changed their religion. Nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves. There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.
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