Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?

When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

Your opinion should always be based on what you have seen with your own eyes, what you have heard with your own ears and what you have felt with your own heart.

I wish I could take it all back, but I can’t. And I definitely can’t un-feel a feeling.

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement.

Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on go, ...Only shooting stars break the mold.

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

I have never been a fashionista or someone who puts a lot of thought into what I wear, and I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can.