You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Never follow the crowd.

Always do one thing less than you think you can do.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts

I never want to leave you." I didn't respond- not because I couldn't find the words, but because there weren't any words in the entire world that could have sounded more perfect.

They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

I think I made good movies.

A humble person never stops learning.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.