No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

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.

In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults.

Don’t neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life.

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.

I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.