There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Good taste is always an asset.
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.