Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

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.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Shirtless, they’d stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.