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

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.

It doesn't matter where you go in life it's who you have beside you

When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.

Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

[I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody who's ... normal ... I'm not curious, I'm not interested.

When your through changing, your through!

Never lose interest in life and the world. Never allow yourself to become annoyed.

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?