Sydney J. Harris

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

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

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.