In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.

When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.

You always pass failure on your way to success.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.