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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards.
Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Filth is always a sign of weakness - in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.
A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
