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"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."

"Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them."

"If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself."

"If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay."

"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."

"For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them."

"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

"In a football game and in the corporate workplace, there is a huge difference between teams that achieve great success and teams that become dismal failures. The answer is effective communication - teams that can openly share ideas, focus on the task, and communicate proactively should not be surprised by their achievements."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life."

"But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on top of the Forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing."