Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

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.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

It is said some lives are linked across time. Connected by an ancient calling that echoes through the ages. Destiny.

I wish I could tell you the road from here to where you're going is straight and without obstacles. That is not the truth. The journey to greatness is just not that way.

Never engage in gossip, it kills your soul, and wounds another’s heart

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

Nature is a mirror in which I am reflected, because by rescuing this land from sad devastation [through recreating it in photographs], I am in fact trying to save myself from my own inner sadness.

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.