Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

Don't let anyone or anything drown out that still small voice that says, "You were made for more.

What you see is what you get.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

Have I ever been in love? Really in love? And why is it that with each new guy I think I'm more in love with him than the last?

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

We do not have to know how to forgive. All we have to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the how.

Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

I am getting some good offers still. Some nice things are coming my way just as they always have, so unless I lose my inspiration or there is too much drool to wipe, I will keep going.

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.