"Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups."

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty."

"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong."

"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view."

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."

"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."