Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.

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.

What day is it?” It’s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh.

That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.

Lip-synching?! Let that be a lesson. If you are in Washington, D.C., and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it better be the NRA, an oil company or a bank.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

I have absolutley no limits on what I intent to create.