“Laugh heals smart people, but it insults the stupid ones.”

“If somebody already is, then he should see to it that he be. And when he sees that he be and is, then he must make sure, that he is what he is, and is not what he isn't - as is the case in most cases.”

“Don't take your life way too much serious, you can't survive it anyway.”

“Když už člověk jednou je, tak má koukat, aby byl. A když kouká aby byl, a je, tak má být to, co je, a nemá být to, co není, jak tomu v mnoha případech je.”

“After we deal and heal...NOT A A SHRED OF EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT LIFE IS SERIOUS.....Jan Marshall”

“In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though I am of those who find animals comic…still I could not help laughing at this quaint spectacle. My African companion rightly rebuked me. “You should not laugh at them,” he said. “They are beautiful to each other.”

“That there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.”