YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

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.

I was taught that the most hardworking nurse is found at the dirtiest part of the clinical ward.

sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

I think there's no way they should have to teach [math] now. We have computers. We no longer need to know why 3x = 2y/4.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.