When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him...

The proverb warns that, ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)...