I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

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.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

The problem with memories is they get more valuable with time, and the places we keep them get weaker with age.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.