There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

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's the mind that sees, not eyes.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.