Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)