Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

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.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, " he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

To unleash your potential acknowledge the greatness in others

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

I love driving my car on any highway.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.