The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful - must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand.