And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

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.

Only our faith will allow God to prepare the table in front our enemies

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

We are letting the extractive energy industries turn the world inside out.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Whatever you think, don't never, unless you will.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.