Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

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.

I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.

Don't let the clothes or anyone define you...just be yourself whether in a pair of jeans or a ball gown.