"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."

"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."

"A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope."

"What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine."

"Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will."

"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."