"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."

"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."

"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."

"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."

"Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble."

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

"Never underestimate your own ignorance."

"There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."

"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."