Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.