Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

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.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

In a country like India, the British were only able to rule the country because it had completely co-opted the elite of the country, who did their work for them.

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?