Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.