The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

If nobody has too much, everybody will have enough.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.