Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it …

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.