I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another.

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 enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.

I actually feel most relaxed when I'm working.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.

Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.

When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking.