Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are.

You can only be funny if you have matters of great importance on your mind.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.