You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.