The mind is the effect, not the cause.

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.

Sin has invaded God's creation, and we live now in a fallen world.

We need to forgive ourselves and everyone else for NOT being perfect.

She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

There is a big logical jump between acknowledging the destructive nature of hyperinflation and arguing that the lower the rate of inflation, the better.

I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.