The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

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.

How well you cross a storm of life determines your testimony about it

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.