In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.