I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

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.

The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.

I like to dance, but not in the air.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

It's been a long time since anybody caught me saying something stupid.

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.