When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.