...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

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.

Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in you your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

Time seems so inconceivably vast, until it crushes, pressing you paper-thin between one broken-heartbeat passed, and the laughter yet to come.

What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you.

As I reread each book of the Bible, I fell in love all over again - not just with God's Word, but with God himself.

Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire.

Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.

A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.