Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles f….

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include th….

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men..

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure..

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

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.

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..

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done..

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that ….

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen..

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring..

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his c….

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling..

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

The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one ….

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion..

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site..

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

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself..

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; c….