The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

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.

The small word, “No.” I’d see its deity.

Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God

I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.