Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

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.

Love is the creative force of this universe.

I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.

This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.

I read the three Hunger Games books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote Just a Game.

Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

I played teen roles until high definition came out.