Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

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.

She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

The window is closing.

For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.

I offer my heart, entrust my soul and give my life to you.

The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Thank you to every American who has not sued me so far.

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator.

Reality in strong doses frightens.