Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Idea-less steps and step-less ideas are greatest wastes.

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

I think you should make a movie that has an audience.

If Shakespeare was around today I would ask him out to dinner. The only thing I don't like about him is the way he did his hair.

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.