In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.