When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

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.

Difficult questions can have simple answers.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend.

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.