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You have to be able to take it as well as dish it out. Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

You must do things you think you cannot do.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.