Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.