Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.