Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychiatry and an atheist, theorized that one’s attitude toward one’s father largely shaped one’s attitude toward God.

Any moral system that is detached from God, no matter how noble and sincerely held, will likewise fail.

Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don’t.

God afflicts people for a reason

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

Fortune, that favors fools.

I often feel the need of a man to take care of me, even though I can certainly take care of myself.

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars look on the sea.

I've been very lucky in my life.

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.