Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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.

A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

I still think of myself as from Illinois.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

You might be a redneck if your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.

Listen to the sound of the earth turning.