The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

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.

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.

No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

Praying is a prevailing force.

The book: an umbrella against ignorance

Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

The crime against nature will never make any great progress in society unless people are prompted to it by some particular custom.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Germany is dictating its policy in Europe

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

You might be a redneck if you wish your outhouse was as nice as those at the state park.

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?