Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Theology is a superstition—Humanity a religion.

We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.

Mammals require three essentials in life, identity, stimulation, and security, and by far the most important of these three psychological cornerstones is identity.

What I see is sacred.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.