In charge

Inviting people to laugh with you
while you are laughing at yourself
is a good thing to do.
You may be a fool, 
but you're the fool in charge.
                  Carl Reiner
                  20 March 1922 – 29 June 2020

Evidence

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
          Brendan Gill, Here at the New Yorker



 

Doing good

Do all the good you can

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.

          Attributed to John Wesley 

Yes

I don't know Who — or what — put the question, 
I don't know when it was put. 
I don't even remember answering. 
But at some moment I did answer Yes 
to Someone — or Something — 
and from that hour I was certain 
that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, 
my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

            Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings