Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.

Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.

My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.", May 16, 1767)

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.

You can find me at three in the morning in my living room with a glass of wine and really bad '90s trip hop beats blaring from my headphones.

And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

[On General William Boykin] I hope he's not long for this world.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.