The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

The 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.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.