I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.

It had better be. It doesn't do much when it's soft.

It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

Total freedom from your past

This is the better one. It's identical.

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.