Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

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.

Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.

I to myself am dearer than a friend.

As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.

What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.