Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.

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 talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

A new future requires a new past.

The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

I can't imagine loving somebody more than I love Wyatt [my son]. I can't. I just don't know how that's possible.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.