All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

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.

... there is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.

There are literally billions of people on earth. There are some that won’t admit it, but all of those people want friends.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.