I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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 love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

Our instrumental part in the symphony of life is to allow love to create a space within our own awareness, through which the undreamed mystery may emerge as a knowable reality.

The heart of science is measurement.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up -​ that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.