If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

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.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people

Money doesn't change you, it reveals you. Money is just an enabler, whatever a person chooses to do with it is a reflection of their character.

Have you thrown ‘Why is a raven like a writing desk?’ at her yet?

Falling in love is like seeing the ocean for the very first time, when all of your life you've been stepping in puddles.

I've spent the past two years looking for my ex-girlfriend’s killer… but no one will do it.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us thru fear.

In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.