I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

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 love you more than depth of the ocean, but I can't let you feel the pain of it...lines from Love Vs destiny....

Nothing incites failure more than success.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.