In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots; you have got to go the regular turnpike road.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

As far as I am concerned I wish to be out on the high seas. I wish to take my chances with wind, and wave, and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm, than rot in any orthodox harbor.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.