Always quit for the day when you know what you want to do next.

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.

Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves

The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

An eye for an eye is elemental.

Emotional release by itself, no matter how "real," "honest," etc. the emotion may be, is never enough to create a character...such release has no artistic form.

When I propose, angel, trust me, you’ll know it.