A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

This is now and forever - the moment everyone must have, the moment that encompasses all other moments; now and before, now and after: all time.