“Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.”

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.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated.

Your power ends where your fear begins.

Were a man’s sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life.

Since it is the practice of enlightenment, that practice has no beginning and since it is enlightenment within the practice, that realization has no end.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.

Think positive girl, or the world ends.