Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
I believe if you start a business with the intent of making it huge, you're already prioritizing the wrong thing. Size is important, but it's a byproduct of a whole bunch of other things that are worth way more of your mental energy - customers, service, quality.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.
We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
A well-aimed spear is worth three.
Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.
I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.
My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm finding this quite tough, but I'm going to hang in there,' then at the end they will say, 'Oh God, I'm glad I hung on, it was so worth it.'
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
What's life without love? You can accomplish everything you want in life, but without anyone to share it with, what's it really worth?
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
It's not about having a plethora of suits, but having a few good ones. It's all about fit. The contour of your body. If your shoulders are broad, you shouldn't have shoulder pads. If you're not a big man, you shouldn't have extra space. I think it's definitely worth having it properly fitted.
When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
