An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

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.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

We will never forgive and we will never forget.

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.