Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.

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.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives we do not take the steps and time necessary to be introspective.

The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.

I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.

Trample the weak. Hurdle the dead.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.