A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

Set’s storm is gathering,” Amos said with a twinkle in his eyes. “Shall we drive into is?

You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.

There is no such thing as a publishable first draft.