Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

~ F. Forrester Church

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

~Albert Einstein

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult, when properly understood. It means that you are to forget inconvenient duties, and forgive yourself for forgetting. In time, by rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

~Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar(Mark Twain)

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

~Mark Twain attributed this to Disraeli

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

~Mark Twain: A Biography

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

~Mark Twain's Speeches

The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to a group that self-interest has to individual. Nobody preached duty to these kids in a way they could understand -- that is, with a spanking. But the society they were in told them endlessly about their 'rights.' The results should have been predictable, since a human has no natural rights of any nature.

~Mr. Dubois in Starship Troopers(Heinlein)