The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do

The present moment is the pivotal point of power.

Would you put a pastrami in your mouth if you didn't want to eat it?

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

Humanity will live as long as there are humans.