It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

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.

Everyone is good if you see from good side.

And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life

...[D]espite the concoction's disgusting lecture, it's cleared every blemish from my face, as promised. I am a Buzzard-created beauty, head to toe.

To write you into poems, and make you unerasable.

Your addiction to thinking will come back to haunt you.

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

Never waste a good crisis.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.