No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

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.

Be a source of influence to others

Sickness is deep within the soul of our society—and that has always been God’s exclusive territory.

The darkness had not overcome the light.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped- on world, you have to be sure of yourself.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.