“The concept of hell and endless torment is popular with those who believe they aren't headed there.”

“I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.”

“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness.”

“Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.”

“I think of all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell.”

“Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness.”