Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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.

it takes hope and courage to keep fighting even after the world has given up.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Remember wars are won by killing people. The more we kill, the quicker we'll get out of this war.

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

Success doesn't stop when you get there

It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time.

The moment you fear, you are nobody.

[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.