Vegas means comedy tragedy happiness and sadness all at the same time.

I've had at least my share of tragedy but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people but the appalling silence of the good people.