Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

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.

Fearless fate!

You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

We didn't have the time to watch playback all the time so I depended on my team [All We Had].

Americans are always a little bit insecure.

I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

Make finding the good in others a priority