Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.