Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.