The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

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.

If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

I would never sell my soul, for cars and gold

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.