"A crisis + time = humor."

-- Blaine Lee Pardoe

“If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.”
“I learned all about life with a ball at my feet”
“I have a career now, and I have to say, five years ago I didn't. I'm 50, and you never know what works, but I think part of that is because - in this way that can't be defined but which can be examined - we cannot work alone.”
“There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.”
“It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.”

Source : Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”
“Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers.”
“The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.”
“Be adaptable, flexible and never stop learning. The rate of change will never stop and neither should you.”

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