I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

I really like listening to music in my car.

I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.