Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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.

If you have a vision from God, It means you have the ability to fulfill it

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

If Aphrodite had an avatar on earth, it was her. It was her- the Holy Grail men keep searching all through their lives!

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

There's a lot of trials and tribulations you have to go through to get what you want, especially if you feel like it belongs to you.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.