Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

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

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.