Never attempt to accelerate your progress

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.

A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.