Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

The only thing infinite is our capacity for self-deception

Everywhere we look, ideology slouches along the freeways and autoroutes, sometimes carrying a cross, sometimes a sickle, sometimes a crescent, but always busy doing somebody in somewhere, somehow.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

I'd rather die than live without passion.

Do not protect yourself by a fence but rather by your friends.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

There's nothing like a nice piece of hickory.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

I don't worry about anything but winning races.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.