And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

Blaming others for your mistakes, makes you powerless to change your life. Taking responsibility for your mistakes, gives you the power to change your life

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Wassup dear? Sup babe? What street you by? On 5th Bout to hit the West Side High

We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.

I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.