When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated.

Infatuation is the language of a beautiful eye upon a sensitive heart.

Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.

There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.

I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.

Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.

When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

When you give, give with joy and smiling.

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example.