"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."

"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."

"Society is composed of two great classes - those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."

"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."

"It is not a fragrant world."

"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."

"Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."