I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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.

Humanity suffers because most of us are living in our prison of fixed, false beliefs and we don't want to get out of it.

Just give us until Rome.” The tears escaped. “Just give us until Rome, Melanie.

Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.

How about that McDonald's two blocks from Ground Zero? That's killed more people than the 19 hijackers.

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.

Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you

There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.