"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

"The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

"Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose."

"Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living."

"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."

"We're neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know."

"Religion is for those who don't want to go to Hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have already been through it."

"I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion."