My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.

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.

No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cute enough to kiss you.

Spirituality can exist only in a pure heart.

Well, I did tell you I couldn’t give you a thing. Maybe you’ve just realised that Alistair can give the god damn world, and the pleasure of kissing his shiny slap-head every day!

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

I think a lot of blue collar people related to me because a lot of people work for their money.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.