Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!