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We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I've played it.

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Words make you think a thought._x000D__x000D_Music makes you feel a feeling._x000D__x000D_A song makes you feel a thought.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.