I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped 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.

This would go a lot easier if you'd stop screaming in pain, ' Zoe told the muscular man lying beneath her.

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

Being on a soccer pitch is not the same as being in a kitchen when things are going wrong.

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.