Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.