A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
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Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.
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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
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People who cannot recognise a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilisation.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.
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Next to our free political institutions, our free public-school system ranks as the greatest achievement of democratic life in America ...
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The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
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What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if the...
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The chief lesson of the Depression should never be forgotten. Even our liberty-loving American people will sacrifice their freedom and their d...
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Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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... the separation of church and state means separation—absolute and eternal—or it means nothing.
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