Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.

We can never truly understand the people we hate; we can never truly hate the people we understand.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?

The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.