A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

If I had no sense of humor I would long ago have committed suicide.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

In both children and adults there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

At home I've got a very puerile juvenile sense of humour.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home many young men make gangs their families.

In the true sense one's native land with its background of tradition early impressions reminiscences and other things dear to one is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life. I am kind of like that at home. Do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance but they were not happy.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

All philosophies if you ride them home are nonsense but some are greater nonsense than others.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.