A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change

Your destiny is forged in the fires of your determination

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

What dark corner of the soul did you crawl out of?

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

I’m afraid you’re going to have to make a choice.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.