Christians.....expend more “moral” energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide.

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.

If you cannot find a reason to be grateful for today, be grateful for you have the sky.

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic there was in the world. How much magic that wasn't just buried in a tomb. He was feeling it now.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.