We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

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.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

I came from rather humble beginnings.

There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.