Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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.

Don't stress over being yourself. The act of being yourself is simply to be. Be without changing yourself for others. Simply be.

The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?

We each survive in our own way.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

If we ask enough questions about a difficult assignment, we can get the teacher to make it easier and less demanding.

Persevere even though Hell and destruction should yawn beneath your feet.

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.