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"People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older."
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?"
"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."
"Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time."
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
"We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure."
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."
"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."