Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

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.

If your Ipad can do it better than you, then it is not a skill.

An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.

I always believe in earning love. I consider unconditional love to be one of the worst ideas developed

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

Sometimes the right path is not always the easiest.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.