In looking for humor keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly over time gain in political significance.

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

When the Nobel award came my way it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions including literacy basic health care and gender equity aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and at the same time with my wife and family.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions but an immediate insight self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.