Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque 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.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

Our fatal mistake is waiting to be motivated before we take action. Action motivates.

Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great

I want you to know you're in my heart... growing into a beautiful garden.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.

The only way I can't hit .300 is if there's something physically wrong with me.

He didn't ask what I was thinking, which was out of character for him. I guessed that meant that he was just as nervous as I suddenly was.

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.