Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.