What is religion?
It is compassion for all things which have life.
-Hitopadesa
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
-Nikola Tesla
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
-George Bernard Shaw
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
-C. S. Lewis
...true freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
-Mortimer Jerome Adler
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
-Ray Bradbury
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.