Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

- Mary Schmich

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other da…

- Mary Schmich

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do wi…

- Mary Schmich

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real…

- Mary Schmich

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

- Mary Schmich

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

- Mary Schmich

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

- Mary Schmich

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

- Mary Schmich

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

- Mary Schmich