Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

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.

For everyone who never smiled in school photos, for all who’ve wandered city streetsnot knowing the where they were or feeling alone, I’ve packed kindness.

That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

I love art. It is uplifting.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death?

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.