Most people don’t care who rules, as long as their lives don’t change.

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed.

Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.

Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

To that which is born, death is certain; to that which is dead, birth is certain.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically

Be it sin or no, I hate the man!

You should RULE your money, Money shouldn't RULE your Life.

Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.

Everyone has the capacity for courage. We don't need to face extreme circumstances to become admirable people.

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.