Every day above earth is a good day.

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.

The bigness of the West makes men quiet

God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman and God help him still more if he finds her.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.