If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.