Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

To be or not to be isn’t the question. The question is how to prolong being.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe’s pajamas.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.