Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.

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.

The instruction received at the mother's knee, and the paternal lessons, together with the pious and sweet souvenirs of the fireside, are never effaced entirely from the soul.

Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

People were as they were, not not as he wished them to be.

A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.

Talking up a storm about food is so easy for me, it's second nature.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.