I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.