The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.