If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

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.

Love has no Terms and Conditions

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.

How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects?