You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.

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.

Knowing who you are is half the peace of accepting yourself.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

Passion can’t be planned

Failure is a word unknown to me.

I spend most of my time wearing uncomfortable things, so for me, it's all about trainers.

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.