We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

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.

Y are you called the cheese man?

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home.

To maintain good health requires good nutrition and a healthy dose of exercise.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.