And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

Ein ehrlicher Mann mag stecken, in welchem Kleide er will, man muss ihn lieben.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

I place a higher value on human life than on no human life. But only barely.


The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it