I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

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.

Broken wings don't mend that way

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

What I've done in the game is always going to stick, no matter what happens.

The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons.