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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.