Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

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.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.