The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

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.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Whatever we focus on determines what we become.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.

It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.

I don't like talking about myself, if I'm honest.

You choke my days, I'll choke yours.