Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

He who endures penance and hardships for another delights in that person's company.

The profits of good luck are perishable if you build on fortune you build on sand the more advancement you achieve the more dangers you run.

Since reason is man’s basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.