PMFJI,
My favorite joke on the subject:
Two fish are in a fish tank and having a very heated argument. Then they get tired, stop and each one swims to a different corner.
After a moment, one of the fish swims back to the other one and says,
"Ok, if there is no God, who changes water in this fish tank?"
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham