They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

We rise by lifting others.

If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.