Belief in God optional. Belief in the self is imperative.

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity’s internal Godliness.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells within you?

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.