"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."

"The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die."

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."

"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."

"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"

"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."

"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."