Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

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.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

Be for something and against nothing.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]