Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.