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The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor more precious than money more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.

To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad it's experience.

Boys this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that God will help and you will come out well.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.