Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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.

How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ?

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

There is a lot of years in my 20s that acting was really on the back burner not even saying I was traveling and writing, taking pictures and just kind of living and figuring out what I wanted to do.

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.