حين ينهار عليك عالم من الخيبات والإزعاجات، إذا أنت لم تستسلم لليأس، تتحول إلى الفلسفة أو إلى الدعابة. - Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

"I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that". They just keep smiling.

"It was strange to listen to slick young Nazis along Fifth Avenue haranguing small gatherings from little mahogany pulpits. One spiel went as follows: "The philosophy of Hitler is a profound and thoughtful study of this industrial age, in which there is little room for the middleman or Jew."

A woman interrupted. "What kind of talk is that!" she exclaimed. "This is America. Where do you think you are?"

The young man, an obsequious, good-looking type, smiled blandly. "I'm in the United States and I happen to be an American citizen," he said smoothly.

"Well," she said, "I'm an American citizen, and a Jew, and if I were a man I'd knock your block off!"

One or two endorsed the lady's threat, but most of them stood apathetically silent. A policeman standing by quieted the woman. I came away astonished, hardly believing my ears."