Never mistake motive for action.

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.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.

Only you are responsible for the development of your gift and for its brilliant after the process of its refinement

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.