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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.