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.

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

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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?'

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.