I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.