The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

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 only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.

Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

Wisdom comes in the silence of one's chaos

We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar.

My religion lies in my composition.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Hamlet is a little daunting.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

My dad told me that when I was born my cheeks were so fat the doctors didn't know which end to spank.