Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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.

No woman should build her life waiting for a man to come along and save her. It's a tragic waste of brains and talent.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

If you take care of everything inside of you, God will take care of everything outside of you.

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

I wish my capacity for reason would always translate into action, but it doesn't.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.