No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

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.

Women are mysterious beings in which lie strange delights.

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.