There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

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.

A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person.