I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

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.

Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears

Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even it

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

Enthusiasm does not always speak for those who arouse it, but always for those who experience it.

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.

If he were on fire, he couldn't act as if he were burning. He can't out-act me on the big screen.