The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

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.

Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things

Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

The position of First Lady has no rules, just precedent, so its evolution has been at a virtual standstill for years. If Martha Washington didn't do it, then no one is sure it should be done.