If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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.

Let your heart sing from those wounded places.When you sing your song with everything you've got, it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.

A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet.

A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

I think that's the most important thing: when life kind of screws you over a little bit, you've got to learn from that experience.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

The best part of being a pro is being able to travel around the world. I have met so many incredible people and experienced different cultures all through sport.

As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.