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 simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.

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.

The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.