Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. 

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

The girl is poised against a changing world, and yet represents a sense of permanence in a world that is mutable. She has some simple secrets and her life is just a source of missed times.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.