Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. |
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. |
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. |
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. |
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". |
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. |
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time. |
The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. |
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. |
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. |
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady. |
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. Topics: Computer |
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. |
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" |
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? |
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. |
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. |