At the end of all things, the blessed will say, 'We never lived anywhere but in heaven.'

I have been trying to make the reader believe that we actually are, at present, creatures whose character must be, in some respects, a horror to God, as it is, when we really see it, a horror to ourselves. This I believe to be a fact: and I notice that the holier a man is, the more fully he is aware of that fact.

It is wonderful what you can do when you have to.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.