Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

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.

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.

willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothing

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.