American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]

Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff, you get people going, "I didn't come here to have my political views bashed."

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

Music Has Been There For Me When No One Else Was And The Only Thing That Stays When Everyone Else Leaves

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold, it's a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

If you ask me, you see, I prefer doing film. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.