It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
A smile is the universal welcome.
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Living well is the best revenge. If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party.
If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.
Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i. e. , he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.