Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

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.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else

I'll never look at cake the same way again, " he whispered in her ear.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.