It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

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.

There is no better designer than nature.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps. Jenny will do well enough.

When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic?

That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina and duty clashed and were overcome not so much by pain but by absurdity.

It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.