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

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.