The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.
Sydney J. HarrisGenealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
Sydney J. HarrisThe commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.
Sydney J. HarrisThe 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.
Sydney J. Harris