All bad writers are in love with the epic.

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.

Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

The purpose of a purpose is to fulfill a purpose

Eye reads what is unwritten.

The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles.

Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

What is subversive today, will almost certainly be patriotic tomorrow.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.