I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.