"People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains."

"The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all."

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."

"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."

"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."

"I'm still an atheist, thank God."

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."