The best of us would rather be popular than right.

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 shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

I don't really read what people write about me. Someone gives my novel one star; are they a troll? Are they someone who hates my politics and so has decided to do that?

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.