"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way."

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."