A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

He'd imagined peacetime would bring him a sense of belonging. During the war it kept him going, that thought of peace. He'd believed in it like a season he knew it would arrive one day

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.

Every single choice we make is either going to enhance the spirit or drain it. Every day, we're either giving ourselves power or taking it away.

The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act.

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.

Put opportunity ahead of security.

The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

Every Olympics is something special. If you're fortunate enough to play for your country - there's just so much energy. It's truly amazing.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.