Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
When you understand the internal process of life, first time, you realize that the personal identity that you carry in your mind, exists only at the time of momentary experience, and as the experience...
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.