Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Home is the nicest word there is.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

The one great universal in the study of violence is that most of it is committed by fifteen-to-thirty-year-old men.

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

Do nothing twice over.

Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

Pity does not get you aid. Admiration at your refusal to give in does.