Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Thus the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees"