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

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris

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

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Sydney J. Harris

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

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