The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.