"Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"Being a newspaper columnist is like marrying a nymphomaniac - It's great for the first two weeks."

"Joy is not a thing, it is in us."

"Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."

"Well behaved women seldom make history."

"Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy."

"If you're not happy without it, you'll never be happy with it."

"Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."

"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."

"MAGNIFICENT, adj. Having a grandeur or splendor superior to that to which the spectator is accustomed, as the ears of an ass, to a rabbit, or the glory of a glowworm, to a maggot."

"Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future."