"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

"Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching."

"People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky."

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

"I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him."