We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatestgood.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains
Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself
In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions. It only guarantees equality of opportunity
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Anyone can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time and for the right purpose and in the right way – that is not within everyone’s power and that is not easy.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works is the family
I’m tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want – an adorable pancreas?
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.