Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

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.

Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

You're only as strong as your weakest link so you've got to make sure everybody in your crew is on point.

I think that Election Day is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament, when people meet their neighbors at the firehouse or the school and they vote at the same time.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir (leader) and give allegiance to him... Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.