Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.