Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

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.

She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.

It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

Pressure is an illusion, but I like that illusion of pressure.

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind