A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

Teach hope to all, despair to none.

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.