The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

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 real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.

If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever

My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Running is a gift I give myself almost daily. Even at days when everything seems to go wrong, I treat myself on the satisfaction of a lap of 30 to 40 minutes.

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

I've never been able to write for stand-up.

Freediving is about silence...the silence that comes from within.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination.