Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

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.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.