Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.