There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

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.

I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.