“Five percent of the people think;  ten percent of the people think they think;  and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.” 

“The men who followed Jesus were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up.”

“You can’t build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don’t care about anybody in the room.”

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God’s way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him.”

“Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.”

“[God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies?”

“You have been endowed with the power to use the most highly organized form of energy known to man, that of thought.” 

“It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.”

“Reps, reps, reps”

“Al preguntar cómo podemos maximizar nuestras experiencias, les sacamos el mayor provecho.”

“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: “Now, it’s complete because it’s ended here.”

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”

“You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.”

“Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together!”