All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

Hell is life drying up.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.