You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.