Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.