When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
— Abraham Lincoln

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
— Sir Richard Francis Burton

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.
— Steven Weinberg

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
— Thomas Jefferson

A cult is a religion with no political power.
— Tom Wolfe

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
— George Bernard Shaw

It is a pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
-Touchstone the Clown, from Shakespeare’s As You Like It

“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
~ Wayne Gretsky

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”
~ Satchel Paige

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker… I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.” – Stanley Kubrick

“Well done is better than well said.”
~ Benjamin Franklin

“I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
~ Richard Nixon

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
– Robert Frost

“Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. ”
– Victor Hugo

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
– John Locke

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
– Winston Churchill

“Lady, people aren’t chocolates. D’ya know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But, I don’t find them half as annoying as I find naive bobbly-headed optimists who walk around vomitting sunshine.”
– John C McGinley playing Dr Cox on Scrubs

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”
– Isaac Asimov

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”
– William G. McAdoo

“There is always some madness in love. But there is always some reason in madness.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
– Jack Kerouac