When a noble life has prepared old ag...

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

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The only way to prove that you’...

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.

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I don’t know any other way to l...

I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.

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There is no criterion in life that wi...

There is no criterion in life that will carry a marriage, or satisfy the marriage, except your creative communication with the man you love.

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There is no criterion in life that wi...

There is no criterion in life that will carry a marriage, or satisfy the marriage, except your creative communication with the man you love.

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I tell my students, ‘When you g...

I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

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The artist who aims at perfection in ...

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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The trouble with being punctual is th...

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

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A person starts to live when he can l...

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

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I think it is important for all those...

I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

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Great leaders are pragmatists who can...

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

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The physicality of a real relationshi...

The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.

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The physicality of a real relationshi...

The physicality of a real relationship – one that encompasses mind, body and soul – ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be.

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The only real job of a teacher, espec...

The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves.

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The artist is a receptacle for the em...

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

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