Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.