Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

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

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.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

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

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.