"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition."

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

"If you stand still outside you can hear it... Winter's footsteps, the sound of falling leaves"

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

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

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"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."

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