The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

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 statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.