"You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character."

-- Luc de Clapiers

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“[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.”
“You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.”
“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it.”

Source : "60 Minutes" Interview, www.youtube.com. February 05, 1995.
“I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.”
“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose itâ€™s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”
“Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.”
“On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.”
“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”

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