True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought or interpretation.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big.

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

The only currency still used as a store of value after 5000 years is gold

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.