Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
And the simple step of a simple courageous man is not to take part in the lie, not to support deceit. Let the lie come into the world, even dominate the world, but not through me.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot.
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned.
Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
Optimist is the one who looks at bullshit and sees fertilizer.
The majority is never right, unless it includes me.
A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Laughter is inner jogging.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.
International law is that law which the wicked do not obey and the righteous do not enforce.
All the best songs are co-written by God.
If you take your kids too seriously, they'll drive you to drinking. If you don't take them seriously enough, you'll drive them to drinking.
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
The best proof of love is trust.
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
Sympathy means you feel like the other person, Empathy means you understand the other person.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
The cynic, a parasite of civilisation, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Sometimes it keeps us alive hope, sometimes habit, and sometimes fear. In the first case this is life, in the other vegetation, in the third hell.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.
