The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are – more humane.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Nature does nothing in vain.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

By indignities men come to dignities.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The brain is wider than the sky.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Man – a being in search of meaning.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?