Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal' or they will unmake our 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.

Ask open ended questions. Pull out the pain and the hurt your prospect is experiencing.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

When in doubt, scribble.

When I get to first base, I start thinking about third.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

You get into pro ball and you realize all the guys were the best players on their teams. You have to keep moving forward.