As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

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.

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

The destiny of your land is in the hands of the church and her willingness to declare the position of God in the society

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.

You might be a redneck if three quarters of the clothes you own have logos on them.

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.

Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's just how it is. I think my name must be Williamsova.