Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

"No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain."

"If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it."

"If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it."

"Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along."