Imagination means nothing without doing.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.
There is greatness in everyone.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
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.