The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

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.

...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.

Every  person’s  life  should  include  one  reckless  moment.

Quality questions create a quality life.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.