There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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.

I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

No one knows why, but second only to eating the brains of the living, the dead love affordable prefab furniture.

Feathertail... No, don't leave me!

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

...but we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation-liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.

As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

My art is different than yours; it consists not in defeating others, but in not being defeated.

Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund