There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged 'holy men' relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.