"Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy without what you thought you needed in order to be happy, and you will be. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

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“When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.”
“I don't get the animosity when someone tells a joke that you don't like. Whereas if someone made a dish that you don't like if you went to a restaurant, you would either try another dish or you just don't go back to that restaurant. But you don't say like, "I did not like the hamburger here. This restaurant should be shut down. It should be banned from making hamburgers. No one else should have these hamburgers." And everyone else is like, "No, you wouldn't do that."”
“Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.”
“The first time I punched in my name and saw how many sites there were, I thought, that's scary. I got too involved where I got worried and panicked and tried to stop it. But you know what, if I just let it go and not worry about it, then it will be fine. Because it's all about how it makes me feel and I was letting it get to me.”
“I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.”

Source : Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.
“By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of trade. I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used.”

Source : Hugh McCulloch (1970). “Men and Measures of Half a Century; Sketches and Comments”
“If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes”
“Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.”

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