To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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.

Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

Sing you a song and steal your soul.

You're writing every moment in your mind but not putting it down on paper. Write your thoughts

We all need time to enjoy being alive without an agenda of getting something done.

Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

"It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.