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.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

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 country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

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

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 greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.