Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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?'

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.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe

We are each the love of someone's life.

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you.

In American cinema, people will take a chance on you, though they'll often remind you that really, they always liked you.

My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice.

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.