In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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.

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!

For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force.

I belong to the Kingdom of God, that's my Country! I'm from Space City, that's my City! I'm from the City that hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God!

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.