I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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.

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

Find someone who will love your soul more than your body.

One, who has passed through one pain, gets the strength to pass through many pains. Then he becomes the expert in passing through the pains.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

The whole world is a large Niepokalanow where the Father is God, the mother the Immaculata, the elder brother the Lord Jesus in all the tabernacles of the world, and the younger brothers the people.

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.