Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.