The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

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 a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.

My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.

We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.