Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.

Vanity is easily forgiven, for we are all vain, and even as we laugh at the weakness of others we feel that their vanity has touched the responding chord of our own.

There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.

Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor!

And if I please you so, my lover, Remember praise is comely.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

Love has earth to which she clings.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself