The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Man created God in his own image.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

Encouragement activates the strength of sacred being.

The school teacher is certainly underpaid as a child minder but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.