The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

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.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Déjà vu is simply remembrance of the future.

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.