“Muslims still take their religion too seriously, whereas we have the good sense to blow it off. Catholics don’t follow the Pope. In overwhelming numbers they divorce, they have pre-marital sex, they masturbate. And unlike the Koran, no one here seriously considers following the Bible literally. Guys don't look over their fence on Sunday morning and see a neighbor mowing the lawn and think, "Working on Sunday? I really should kill him."… But, before I conclude, it should in fairness be noted that, in speaking of Muslims, we realize that of course the vast majority are law-abiding, loving people who just want to be left alone to subjugate their women in peace.”

Commenting on the lack of Liberal MPs in the House of Commons, resulting in a tied vote on a government bill.
Source: National Post http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/john-ivison-liberals-sent-scrambling-after-opposition-ambush-tests-governments-majority-in-vote on 16 May 2016

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Speech at the National Press Club http://www.press.org/sites/default/files/20161031_thiel.pdf (October 31, 2016)

As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations‎ (1988) by James Beasley Simpson; also quoted in Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women (1992) by Ellen Sue Stern, p. 235
Paraphrased variants: The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care (1945)

Cine Bliitz magazine,(July 2005)

Source: Book opening line. (Ch.1, p.7) [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1954 reprint.]

Source: Interview with Archbishop of Taipei https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/interview-with-archbishop-of-taipei-1299 (December 2008)

"Neurological Politics"'
The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)