Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other