Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

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

Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.

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

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.