A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

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.

Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I was driving by, doing a security check... and I smelled leg of lamb." Morelli

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

If people are going to run you over for no reason and think they're going to get away with it, you just go out there and ruin their day, too. That's they way I feel.

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.

The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.