Richard Dawkins

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress the most casual guest, a system of immediate introduction which she had found to obtain in a number of grimy intellectual households in Greenwich Village.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Language is the archives of history.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.