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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

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All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
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In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
There is no substitute for victory.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
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The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance - thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.