A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

When one takes action for others one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam or place of madmen and oneself a physician is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination and the way to happiness.

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never in any case regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.