“Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.”

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

If you’re really truthful with yourself, it’s a wonderful guidance.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

I’m an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

If people know how it’s done, all the magic goes.

Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

Whether sage or fool, we must all struggle with life.

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.

Life is a play that does not allow testing.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

I neither believe nor disbelieve anything.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

I am an emotional cuss.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

My husband and I were so closely united by our affection and our common work that we passed nearly all of our time together.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

It makes sense that if you good in your heart then you closer to God.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.

Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.