Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.