Religion is to be realized, not read or taught.

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

I am an advocate of godliness, not of god.

Nature deemed God worthy and hence chose it as her slave to serve the humans appearing as the master.

Hard as it may sound, no god has saved anything or anyone in human history. It is the humans who have done so.

My mission is to make the external God of human society obsolete in front of humanity’s internal Godliness.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.

I prefer male enemies to female ones

Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.

Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.

I hope by the time I am president that we will have pushed ISIS out of Iraq.

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm going to also tell you that there's every reason to hope.

I love myself for all my mistakes and missteps. They have been very valuable to me. They have taught me many things. It is the way I learn. I am willing to stop punishing myself for my mistakes.

Everything you do consciously is preserved for you: everything you do mechanically, since you did not do it, is lost.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

In like a dimwit, out like a light.