Quotes by Sydney J. Harris

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

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

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

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'.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

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.

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

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

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.