We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.