Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.