I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.