I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.