Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

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.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward.

He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.

There is only one race, the human race.

I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.