Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving