"My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked."

"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."

"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."

"We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings."

"One can always point to a time, a choice, an act that set the tone for a life and changed a personal destiny."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

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