"To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man."

"Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth."

"Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want."

"'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is I could be just as proud for half the money."

"What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him."

"Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works."

"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."

"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."

"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child."

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is."