A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

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.

Only the forward-looking Christian remains sincerely optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ will win in the end.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die.

Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

So now what? What happens when words fail us?

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

None but himself can be his parallel.