Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

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.

You have the capacity to do the work.Find the willpower to begin work.

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

It's always been a dream to have my own sunglass line and I'm so excited to be able to finally offer it to my fans!

It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church.

How would you have done things differently if you were not afraid?

Responsibility is something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success. Responsibility to the order of Being, where, and only where, they will be properly judged.