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....

First-rate people hire first-rate people second-rate people hire third-rate people.

I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates....

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

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

Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense.