In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.
The ultimate and dearest - and, again, only - relationship we have is the relationship we have with our thoughts.
You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.