Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

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.

A grumpy vampire is a homicidal vampire. Hungry ones were even worse.

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.