Life's struggles

One should strive to live the best years of one's life in perpetuity.

- MG

Life's struggles

One should strive to never have more nor less than one really needs.

- MG

Religion

"Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell, unless it is the sorely limited mind that has failed to describe heaven - except as a place of either worldly comfort, eternal tedium, or (as Tertullian thought) continual relish in the torture of others."

- Christopher Hitchens: God is not great

Fable?

"Are there dragons?" she asked. I said that there were not. "Have there ever been?" I said all the evidence was to the contrary. "But if there is a word dragon," she said, "then once there must have been dragons."

- Penelope Lively: Moon Tiger (as quoted by Christopher Hitchens in "God is not great")

Our sins

If the maker made us with all the faults and sins we possess and exhibit, why is he forbidding us from and punishing us for committing those same sins?

- MG