“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?”

“When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard' I am always tempeted to ask, 'Compared to what?”

“The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.”

“It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --”

“Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.”

“Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway”

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”