It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

A smile is the universal welcome.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

I always fielded the team that I felt had the greatest chances of success.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name.

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B.

The Tibetans have many teachings on how to die, consciously, and how to remain in the clear light, and it works. You can see it working, and they can stay in that state for hours, days, or weeks.