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"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk."

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Dreams

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

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

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."
Age

"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."

"What is to give light must endure the burning."

"Actors are one family over the entire world."

"If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"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."

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."

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