A sabedoria da vida consiste em eliminar o que não é essencial. - Lin Yutang

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.

Human history is not the product of the wise direction of human reason, but is shaped by the forces of emotion—our dreams, our pride, our greed, our fears, and our desire for revenge.