Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.