Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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 I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question.

View other authors as your allies rather than your competition

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger?

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.