There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

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.

Determine your destination, choose a path, now with all your heart start going there.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure, too.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.