If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

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.

Everything was insanely alive, now you see it, now you don't. I thought, it's the light, it's the water, it's changing every second, it's always doing this whether I'm here to witness it or not.

When you smile, you fill the world with joy.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!

Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.

We need to transmute the lead of personality into the gold of the Spirit. This work is only possible in the laboratory of the Alchemist.