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

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

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.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.