At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.