Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

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.

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.

If you are happy with your present time, you will look at your past with happy eyes even if you have had a sad past!

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

Working women went through a time when they believed that.