Leo Calvin Rosten (1908–97) was born in lódz, Russian Empire and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
—Leo Rosten
Courage is capacity to confront what cannot be imagined.
—Leo Rosten
Anyone who is happy all the time is nuts.
—Leo Rosten
Happiness, to me, lies in stretching, to the farthest boundaries of which we are capable, the resources of the mind and heart.
—Leo Rosten
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
—Leo Rosten
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