"I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with."

"No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic."

"You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you."

"Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place."

"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."

"The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense."

"Life is consciousness."

"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins."

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."

"Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home."

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

"Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed."