It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do - then do it with all your strength.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valour of the brave.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
Spiritual progress is like a detoxification
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another.
The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.
