When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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.

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.

I love architecture.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

The drinking man is never less himself than during his sober intervals.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.