1. “To me life is simply an invitation to live.”
2. “When I stepped from hard manual work from writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.”
3. “We couldn’t live without comedy.”
4. “Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.”
5. “All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
6. “Nothing seems to be high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.”
7. “There’s nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.”
8. “The secret of happiness is to fins a congenial monotony.”
9. “Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.”
10. “The artist’s life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything looking at everything and thinking it all out afterward.”
11. “A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh of faint echo of a laugh.”
12. “There is a deeper life than the lie we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting.”
13. “It’s my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.”
14. “Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
15. “When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
