In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.