The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

As we grow better, we meet better people.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

I believe in the Motherhood of God.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.