I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled

It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.

The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

... the time will come when no servant will be hired without a diploma from some training school, and a girl will as much expect to fit herself for house-maid or cook, as for dressmaker or any trade.

Accept the challenges of life and you'll continue to find that winning is the spirit of living . . . it's merely a state of mind.

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.