Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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 no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

I think no one knows my politics.

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.

If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.