Leo Rosten said this quote

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

~ Leo Rosten

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

~ Leo Rosten

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

~ Leo Rosten

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

~ Leo Rosten