Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

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 like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.