Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows 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.

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.

Loneliness is an emaciation of the spirit. -Who Has Known Heights: The Mystique Memoirs of a Melancholic Mind

The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

As we've focused more on our food and where it comes from, people now have greater awareness of what's being put onto our food, pesticides, labeling issues, and consumer health.

If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Yuki: "Is your brain directly wired to perversion?

Getting into television was a total fluke.