Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics. ' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat. ' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.
It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.
There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that. ' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.