A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.