And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

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.

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

Oh my friend it's not what they take away from you that counts-it's what you do with what you have left.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

In my 20s, I worked very, very hard. I have a much more balanced life now.

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.