Quotes by : Leo Rosten

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make....

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.....

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.....

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind....

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath....

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.