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?'

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.