The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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.

Let it rain on some days, Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

I know the Lord is anxious to respond to us if we will only turn to him.

Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

Wealth usually comes from doing what other people find insufferably boring.

God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.