“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong.”

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

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

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

“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”