People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

My nipples tightened as I breathed in his musky scent mixed with cologne. I didn’t recognize the brand, but it spoke to something inside me. It whispered come closer, and my heart pounded harder.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.

Music can change lives. Whether you are having a good or bad day, the power of music can change one's mood.

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

There's so many different ways to write a rhyme its stupid man. I don't understand why the majority of the rap game sounds the same.