When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life, ’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them

Freedom is never the ally of law. You can have freedom to choose whether you want to join or leave a society based on the rule of law. But as long as you live in such a society you must obey the law.

I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

I don't put pressure on myself. When I put pressure on myself, then I just play bad. When I play bad, my team plays bad.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger?

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.