A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
People who keep journals have life twice
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.
A good time for laughing is when you can.
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.