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 I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.  We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha, or a Sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased. - Voltaire And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Let us forget and forgive injuries. If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace. The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity. What does not destroy me, makes me strong. To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies. Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school. Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives. If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different. Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps. Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united. 
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