The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.""Hun, " Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.

Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

If nations join together now, before the big collapse and share their resources, they can maintain a level of sustainability. Sustain the people that is, and not banks and businesses.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

Gods plan isn't a map for your life that you see all at once, but a scroll unrolled a little at a time.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.