The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.