“Remaining stable and not accepting all the ideas, is my religion.”

“A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.”

“My words and my ideas are my property, and I’ll keep and protect them as surely as I do my stable of unicorns.”

“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.”

“It was like this all up and down the river and many of the young people, the way they accepted their lack of prospects, it was like watching sparks die in the night...He didn't see how the country could survive like this in the long run; a stable society required stable jobs, there wasn't anything more to it than that. ”

“All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.”