It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.

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.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

If I like something, I get it and I put it on.

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

The world defines 'waste' very differently than Jesus does.

What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him. "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.