Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.