For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

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.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

If you're going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldn't do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.

I want everyone to look back and think that I was awesome.

I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost.