The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

it's against my religion.

but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.