whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

I still trust my penalty sytem and will be there when I'll be needed.