It is a wise man who, when his spouse asks, "How does this look?" can answer honestly without upsetting her.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Everyone's just a freak, but some people are trying to hide it and some people embrace it.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.