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.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.