"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

"Man has responsibility, not power."

"If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts."

"An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications."

"The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows."

"I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms."

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"A cult is a religion with no political power."

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."

"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."

"Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people."