Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

I never knew that ["Hank Zipzer"] would happen in my life. It is one of the greatest things. It is like a gift from God.

Your heart is too precious to have hate in it.

To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

He was a god of rock. He nearly solved all the world's problems with nothing but power chords and anguished cries into a microphone.

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.