The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.