Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

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.

Let your instincts guide you through life, and your eyes see the way through.

In the midst of life we are in death.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?

Once a Jew always a Jew.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

To a real child anything will serve as a toy.

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.