The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

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 drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring.

You have to focus on the finish line from the starting line.

That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

Skepticism is only a time-based reality, and as an ultimate reality, it's always wrong, because everything always happens.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

I wanted some family structure and stability, and thats what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.