Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.z
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
When humor goes, there goes civilization. ― Erma Bombeck The secret to humor is surprise.
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ― Confucius The unhappiest & unsuccessful people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.