A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws

Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love... or full of fear.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.