A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

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.

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible