Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Great spirit, great-self.

A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.

If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.

Inner beauty radiates from within, and there's nothing more beautiful than when a woman feels beautiful on the inside.

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

People abuse their own friends and family, but it is only after performing many meritorious acts that one gets a human birth.

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.