Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

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

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.