If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.

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.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

It's one of the most important things in life to provide someone with a job.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!