In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's.

Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.