“Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours. ”
“Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”
“War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.”
“Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.”
“Like most depressions that plague people who have been more fortunate than most, I was ashamed of mine because there appeared to me no convincing cause for it; I just felt as though I had come off the rails somewhere.”
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake”