The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Men make counterfeit money in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'