When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'