Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?

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

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

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 famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

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