"For many are called, but few are chosen."

"In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects."

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

"Solutions are not the answer."

"I don't think there's a rap artist that has more songs about killing somebody than Johnny Cash does."

"Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose."

"An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it."

"Not nail a great star to its track, . . . Tell when to go and when come back;. . . But open up thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show."

"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."

"Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it."