Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

When I was 16 I started keeping a diary in which I recorded my disagreements with the famous philosophers. I didn't insist that they were wrong, that I was right and I had to prevail. I just agreed and disagreed with them. I thought there was a high degree of probability that I was right and some other thinkers were wrong. But I wasn't positive about it.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.