Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.

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.

..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

Darkness comes in waves...tell me, why invite it to stay?

America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the "be all and end all".

The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

You are Beautiful when you are happy

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.