You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

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.

People who were gone only lived on in your memory if you had memories. Why hadn't she held on tighter?

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.

Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.

The fact that you see a manifold world with different times, places and conditions -this exists only because of a lack of humility.

I've got two smoking guns that just look incredible, and I love to pull them out whenever I can.

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!