The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Everything depends on upbringing.

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand