The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.