'When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane, not in all things, but in religious matters. When a thoughtful and unblessed Mohammedan examines the Westminster Catechism, he knows that beyond any question I am spiritually insane. I cannot prove to him that he is insane, because you never can prove anything to a lunatic - for that is a part of his insanity and the evidence of it. He cannot prove to me that I am insane, for my mind has the same defect that afflicts his... When I look around me, I am often troubled to see how many people are mad.'

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on. (This has also been attributed to Winston Churchill.)

Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

'I thought about this question. I answered it as best I could [at the press conference]. I felt I didn't tell [the reporter] what I really wanted to say. He th…