To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isn't rich.

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.

It seems we are all too vulnerable to having our heart lead us astray from what is right

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

If you're very liberal, then you should go and find a very liberal Zen teacher, a liberal interpretation of the doctrines of the Soto or Rinzai schools.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.