That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

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 busy life is an empty life.

Play and be happy.

When you allow your past to define your present, you’re setting yourself up for future disaster.

Don't get me started on critics.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.