Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten
Leo Calvin Rostenwas an American humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth11 April 1908
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational courage capacity
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
inspirational humility nuts
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
powerful men drug
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
hurt ignorance past
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
communication mean thinking
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
past thinking long
I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past
kindness thoughtful matter
The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter..
believe people atheism
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
trying firsts succeed
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
life moving games
You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
money poverty wealth
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
differences making-a-difference purpose
The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
children simple play
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
philosophical heart sight
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.