There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

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.

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.

People think that I'm haughty and stuck up, but really I'm just very shy.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen