Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.