Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom