I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

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

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

For to know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgment and condemnation.

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.

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.