Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

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 is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...

Are you insane?” she’d replied. “Yes.” Jeoff didn’t even bat an eye as he admitted it.-Arabella & Jeoff

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

In really, really good science fiction the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

[American Communist Party] legally exists in the U.S.A., it nominates its candidates in the elections, including Presidential elections.

I feel very troubled in the head and heart.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)