There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

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.

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

Failure either breaks people or it makes them succeed.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

I can't tell you where I'm going . . . but I can tell you where I come from.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.