Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect