The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

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.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

I was always lucky in my bad luck.

I'm for each and against none.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.