I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Change before you have to.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.