From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth - beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals - would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.