The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

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.

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

I love that man better who swears a stream as long as my arm yet deals justice to his neighbors and mercifully deals his substance to the poor, than the long, smooth faced hypocrite.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

You will triumph, O Iraqis, and with you the sons of your Arab nation

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.