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Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each.

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.