Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

When in doubt, use nutrition first.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

You're staring at me," Simon said. "Why are you staring at me? Have I got something on my face?

Anything you can do I can do better, I can do anything better than you.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

Those are fools however learned Who have not learned to walk with the world.

This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.

I could tell you the truth about me... but to seduce you, I will tell you the truth about you.