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Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.

I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.