Surprise is the secret of joy.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.