I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them.

If you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love

Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Two days ahead of schedule, the world witnessed the arrival of a free and sovereign Iraq.

A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

I know who I am. I have a very strong sense of self.

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.