Humor Quotes

The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.

Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life’s nobleness.

…the truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved.

A man can’t talk of true happiness if he has never known true love—the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.

Singers, actors or artists who touch on sorrow are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to their sorrows.

Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.

Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.

The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.

Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him up and help him be in sync with the non-artistic part of his soul.

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.

Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs, especially the material things of life.

In the world of today, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of all of those contradictions. That is how we ended up complicating our world.

In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

At what point is normal natural?

What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?

A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.

a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest...

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving that peace entails going through a complicated and protracted process,

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...

Solomon had a good thing going. He asked for wisdom and he got it, riches, and power. I think I'm going to ask for wisdom too.

Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.

It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it prevail over him.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.

Expose human ties for what they really are and you are most likely to find the worst forms of betrayal staring back at you.

It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.

Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.

Soccer forces life to move on. There’s always a new match. A new season. There’s always a dream that everything can get better. It’s a game of wonders.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]