I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

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 should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, ...

Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’‘I always do, Mrs Weasley, ’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me.

I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.

Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

A harem lacks variety compared to a woman with whom you are deeply in love.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'