Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

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.

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

They say my public persona don't have enough appeal, I take a lesson from Kanye and give 'em something real.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.