Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Happiness real only when shared.

luckily, tiny texts me every five minutes or so. i don't know how he does it without getting caught in class. maybe he hides the phone in the folds of his stomach or something.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

You are never lost when you can see the temple.

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

I laughed all the way through Love Story.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.