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Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land.