Fyodor Dostoyevsky on God

The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain1835–1910

• Animals

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Gene Roddenberry1921–1991

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.