Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

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.

When you invest your time, you are pouring your life into others.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

Toxemia. A word that starts so harsh and ends so gently.

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

Communication is truth

All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

What's worse: a president who is very faithful to an ideology that you find extreme, or a president who is very cynical and appears to have no ideology at all? Neither one of those things is great.

The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.