Love is that condition in which the happiness of another per... - Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."

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

"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."

"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."

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