Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

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

"Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

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

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'.