Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.