Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
In nature, nothing can be given, all things are sold.
No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
If you do not ask yourself what it is you know, you will go on listening to others and change will not come because you will not hear your own truth.
Let prayer be the key of the morning and the bolt at night.
Wasted time means wasted lives.
A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.
After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
There must be more to life than having everything.