Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

Feedback is to success like rest is to the body.

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.

I have very human responses to things, so I had to learn to just be still.

I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

I just want to be happy. You know what I'm saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy.