The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.