"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."

"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

"I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."

"The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."

"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."