“I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.”

“The worst evil is not to commit crimes, but to fail to do the good one might have done.”

“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”

“The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.”

“You can convert your innate worth into gross net worth on the earth.”

“Leverage on your self-worth and convert it into net worth.”

“A true conversion is always only between a man and God.”

“We stand at a crossroads. Do we choose 'the will to power' or 'the will to humanity,' or perhaps a new configuration of both: the power of humanity?”

“One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simpl...”

“Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to dimini...”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”