"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

"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."

"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great."

"Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it."

"Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight."

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."

"My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."

"That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience."