“Unfortunately he was one of those who always tend to take their own fancies seriously; and in whose otherwise legitimate extravagance there is too little of the juice of the jest.”

“Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.”

“A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.”

“People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.”

“The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.”

“Man had created God in his own image, not the other way around. He had done it through sheer terror, and who could blame him? Unfortunately he had made too good a job. The god he had invented was just as cruel and careless as man himself. Not a deity to whom one should seriously address a prayer.”