Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

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.

Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution.

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.

I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.

From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.