I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.