Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.