For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

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.

Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

God wears white flannels.

Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His name.

The people who wake up and jump out of bed with energy and enthusiasm are the people who will be smiling all day, go out of their way to help you, and call you by name.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.