"Perseverance and audacity generally win."

"Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting."

"Intelligence is a symbiotic relationship between emotion and thought."

"Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something."

"Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it."

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works."

"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child."

"A cult is a religion with no political power."

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."