Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

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.

It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem," he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

There is no oil so thick as to destroy the imagination.

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by: Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.

The world is whole beyond human knowing.