Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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 something talismanic about familiar words.

She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.

Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds.

A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

When thought stops, a doorway opens into dimensions that are pure and unassociated. They're nonbinding realities. They're non-samskaric, which simply means that they're beautiful; they're ecstatic.

There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.