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“You must test your own religious claims and texts by the same standards you apply to other religions. If your religion's claims and texts fair no better, then your religion is just as false as theirs is.”
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“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”
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“I find the medicine worse than the malady.”
Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1711). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher: The knight of the burning pestle. Loves pilgrimage. The double marriage. The maid in the mill. The knight of Malta. Love's cure. Women pleas'd”
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“Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.”
Source : Wallace Stegner (2002). “On Teaching and Writing Fiction”, p.46, Penguin
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“Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.”
Source : 'Times go by Turns' (1595).
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“Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.”
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“First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.”
Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2002. 
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“Nobody ever died of laughter.”
