In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

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

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

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

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

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.