This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time.

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do.

And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.