I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. – Leo Rosten
The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. – Leo Rosten
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after theyre dead. – Leo Rosten