However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

Never fall in love with stargazers – always with accelerated affection. Their love disappears in the blink of an eye like a shooting star.

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history

Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds.

One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.

You are born to establish the kingdom of love as you subdue the earth

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.