"The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down."

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“I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had a really scary pregnancy and a very difficult delivery. My daughter and I are lucky to be alive.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Do not think the world will become better in terms of our own inner change. We should rather think we'll achieve this goal only, and only if, we rescue the fact that the ultimate treasure lies at the end of our most positive creative deeds.”
“There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.”

Source : The Straits Times, January 17, 2000.
“True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.”
“. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that for this reason the custom was not to be introduced into the Company. However, since no rule, however general, does not have some exception, we shall see whether it is advisable to have yours printed.”
“When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.”
“If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.”

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