Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

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.

Endeavor to live a simple life, but filled with complex love.

Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.

When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.

The brain runs its show incognito.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.

Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.