You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

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.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

After nearly a year of mourning, I feel like the Victorians when Edison came along- all those years in the darkness, and then electric light. I've got the earth between my toes.

I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging.

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, "I have a really great idea for a restaurant."

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts.

I have to be careful. My readers are very detail-oriented, and if I make a mistake they'll call me on it.