It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.