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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.