All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

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.

I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...

A spark of fiery hunger shot through her as he took over, completely dominating the kiss, his tongue invading her mouth. His hand slid back and cupped her head in that way she loved. Craved.

The knowing is easy. It's the doing that gives us trouble.

'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is the committed kind of endless love. All the lyrics are perfect.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

There’s an opportunity cost to everything.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.