Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

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.

Be soft, don't let the world make you hard. Be gentle, don't let the people make you difficult. Be kind, don't let the realities of life steal your sweetness and make you heartless.

I pressed and I prayed. It was only right that pressing went with prayer. That and being sorry. Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened.

You knew I would find you and you knew what I'd do when I did." -Cort (The Carver's Problem)

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work learning from failure.

I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.

Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.

I believe that the people are looking for a leader who has experience, who has courage, who has vision.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.