“One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life.”

I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn’t be surprised if those things were wrong.

Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

To think is to differ.

I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.

There are two things that kill a genius – a fatal disease and contentment.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.

I’d like to think our love does return to us reincarnated in different human forms. That people might be temporary, but love is permanent and it just changes form.

There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals.

To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.