We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.