Sydney J. Harris Life Quotations

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.

Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

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

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'.