Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

Madness in method, that's genius

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

I always just made music that resonates with me emotionally.

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.