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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. 
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. 
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. 
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, 'It is talking to me, and about me'. 
A simple celebration, a gathering of friends; here is wishing you great happiness, a joy that never ends. 
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. 
Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion 
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. 
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. 
Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction 
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. 
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. 
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. 
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. 
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge 
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often 
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. 
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. 
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams 
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be. 
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself 
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning 
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other. 
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters 
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times. I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. 
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. 
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. 
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. 
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. 
He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master. 
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man. 
No one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid beliefs about what tomorrow will contain. 
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. 
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. 
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. 
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary - it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. 
