"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters."

"If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations."

"I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions."

"In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death."

"I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go."

"There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again."

"More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."