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.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

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.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Curiosity is a call from knowledge.

The knowledge of God is beginning of wisdom.

I'm impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.

Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.

I believe what you believe and you believe what you believe and we'll agree to disagree. It's liberal tolerance meets dark ages denialism. It's very hip right now.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.