Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

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.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Influence can be the worst gun nowadays.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don’t see myself doing anything else.