“Courage is grace under pressure.”

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Look at things and listen and feel.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Every day above earth is a good day.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Everything is your fault if you’re any damn good.

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.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don’t ever tell which is which.

You have to fight, you have to have courage for what you really want.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.