Hem, ' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

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.

We don't always get what we want. And sometimes, when we do, it's not worth the price.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

At 8, I made a pact with God.

I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.