"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

"The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain."

 "The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."