Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

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.

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.

Look around and you will see what others are not seeing

When you give without expectations, you feel that joy is rushing through you like the spring breeze caressing a newly blooming flower.

The story you live is the ripple you leave.

There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

If anyone knew where they were, I'd send the ISDBB (Incredibly Stupid and Dumb Beyond Belief) award to the two guys who tried to break in to the Ohio penitentiary.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

If we really knew what God had for us, we would pray more.

The FBI's principal priority right now is protecting the United States against another terrorist attack.

I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.