Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

The more a human being in his worldview approaches the goal, the hegemony of love in a moral universe, the more has he become slipshod in the light of intellectual honesty.

As long as humankind recklessly proceeds in the fateful delusion of being biologically fated for triumph, nothing essential will change.

Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness.

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

Jesus must have been a psychopath

Success is always looking for the next best man because she knows how valuable she is.

The overload of useless ceremonials and worship have crippled the whole nation. If you want to do good to your nation and yourself, then throw away your ancient ceremonials as far as possible.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.

The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.