"Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather."

"Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it [Denmark] is a prison."

"There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there."

"To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see."

"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words."

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

"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."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

"Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people."