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.

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

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

Happiness is a direction, not a place

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

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

The two words Ôinformation' and Ôcommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through

The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it