Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute.

If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

The openness of our hearts and minds can be measured by how wide we draw the circle of what we call family.

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.