We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.