I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

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

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.