What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

In the end, all or nothing will matter.

Make an impact with your connections. You don’t only connect because you want to get people who will help you. You also connect in order to get to know who you can help.

I don't even own a car.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.

I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

I'm so used to hate that I'm starting to embrace it.

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.