"It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance."

-- Dalai Lama

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“Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.”
“Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.”
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

Source : Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
“I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.”

Source : "Colin Quinn On Brad Pitt, Herman Cain, Comedy And Twitter". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2011.
“From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin. No lady alive can show such a skin. I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather, But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together. Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear, Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare. Though so much of Heaven appears in my make, The foulest impressions I easily take. My parent and I produce one another, The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother.”
“I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.”
“I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough”

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