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

Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.