"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way."

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

"It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him."

"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian."

"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it."

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

"The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society."

"Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want."

"Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."

"Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits."

"They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."