Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.

When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.