Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.