"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live"
- Henry David Thoreau
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering"
- Bruce Lee
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."
- Prof. Richard Dawkins
McDonald: "Now a lot of people find great comfort from religion. Not everybody is as you are---well-favored, handsome, wealthy, with a good job, happy family life. I mean, your life is good---not everybody's life is good, and religion brings them comfort."
Dawkins: "There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting---it might be more comforting, for all I know. But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true."