At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

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.

Waiting for things to happen is like daydreaming. To break out of that cycle, you must be willing to take the first small step.

Live for your dreams, not your memories.

This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.

The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation.

I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day.

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.

I have to accept everything... I will be back strong.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.