As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Find out your talents and gifting and invest your whole time into perfecting them and becoming the best of yourself.

When you are seeking love, from the distance, in silence, love is attracting you.

If stupidity got us in this mess, how come it can't get us out.

Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О, Время, ты от разлуки!]

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Hold tenderly that which you ♥cherish

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.

Some people are destined for greatness; others fall up a hill to get there.

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

I love you, Mira…my Mate. My life. You’re my everything.