Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side.

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.