The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.

Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?

One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

All so-called revealed religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified, and a moral code more or less pure.

All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Home is where the books are

Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

One way or another, we’re all prisoners.

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

Television is a passivity.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.