Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.