Sydney J. Harris

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

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

"The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure."

"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 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."

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

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