"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that is my religion.

— Abraham Lincoln

"Heaven is by favor. If it were by merit, your dog would go in and you would stay out.

— Mark Twain

"Our task [as humans] must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole of nature in its beauty.

— Albert Einstein

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

— Thomas Aquinas