To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

What comes, is called.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Heresy makes for progress.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.

I like to score and drive in runs more than pay attention to batting average.

My motto is to keep it simple stupid, work smart not hard.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes.

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.

When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.