Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

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.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Do not try to understand average people. They are poison for somebody who´s in constant action.

It is very important how efficiently and wisely we manage and plan to use the blessings that God has already given to us

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

I am happiest when I am alone.

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

How much good can you do today? How much love can you give? How much care and kind attention?

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.