The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was an apologist for the divine right of kings.

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.