Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

The supreme adventure is being BORN

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.