Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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