"I saw a human skull the other day. There was an inscription below it: ‘Look long and hard at me, for I was once as you are and you will soon be as I am.’" — Unknown

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" — Douglas Adams

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability." — Oscar Wilde

"Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." — Ambrose Bierce

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."— Louis Brandeis

"I hit him to get his attention. I shot him to calm him down. I killed him to reason with him." — Henry Rollins

"You get what anyone gets; you get a lifetime." — Death, Neil Gaiman Comic Sandman

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." — Confucius

"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of awesome mystical power. We know this because they manage to be invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them." — Steve Eley

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism." — Carl Sagan

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." — Jean Paul Sartre

"If it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them; but the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?" — Blaise Pascal

"I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner." — Aleister Crowley

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." — Sophocles

"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." — Thomas Szasz

"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points." — Virginia Woolf