Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.

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.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Breathe in the beauty all around you.

It is the conquest of this fear that adds half the charm to climbing.

Every day that we read the news we have the possibility of being confronted with a fact about our world that is wildly different from what we thought we knew.

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride.

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.

I'm in my dream world.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it.