The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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 pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.

Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.