“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.

I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

East or West Home is best.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it

air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Travel is the excitement of life! Everything is an adventure, and if you look at it like that, even at the worst moment you can say: ‘We will laugh tomorrow about this.’ And you do.

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.