If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Don’t break a neck looking up for God. Try looking down at inspiring human deeds.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

One wonders sometimes, looking at the world, how it's dealing with itself. There are days when you wake up and you feel very optimistic and there are days when you feel pessimistic.

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.

If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.