Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.