Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

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.

Don't work in a restaurant if you can't control your hunger for food.

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

Fashion has always been very generous. Think of what it has done for curing AIDS.

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

People are what this election is all about.

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?