It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

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.

Willow: Hey, clothes. Tara: Better not get used to 'em.

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

Your customers get better when you do.

Those who understand nature walk with God.

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.