Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

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.

And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true.

How much shall I be changed before I am changed!

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

Nature gives constantly to us. We as indendepent egos think we're important. Selfless giving has to do with overcoming the ego. The ego makes us unhappy.

All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

You're the answer to are we alone in the universe?

I always thought that sororities were just made up of cheerleaders from high school. And I kind of picked on those cheerleaders!

Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.