Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

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.

Every man is his own ancestor and every man his own heir. He devises his own future and he inherits his own past.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

You can't condemn me for wanting you, unless you condemn every other man who has." -Clayton Westmoreland

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

Find your passion, and it's no longer work.

Basically I'm always singing about the same stuff whether it's in a loud or quiet outfit.

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God.

We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them

I had absolutely no focus as a kid. I never paid attention at school, I never went to college. Not because we were too poor; we were. But if I wanted to go to college, I would have found a way.