Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and...

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find...

Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other...

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Yeah, computers are going to take over the programming business because they have become so fast recently that they can solve the Halting Problem in five seconds flat.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not...

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.