The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

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.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I love you. That never changed eversince that day you walked right in front of me.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm.

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.

To create a work of art is to create the world.