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

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.