Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Proof is not required to believe [in a god]. But some sign, some evidence is needed. None exists... Find some inkling of evidence. There is none.

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

If somebody had told me that you have a choice of being a rock star or playing left field for the Tigers, there would not have been a choice at all. I would have said, 'Where's my locker?'

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

I've always wanted to play a soldier and I'd never taken on a character where I'm the happy-go-lucky protagonist. I've played a lot of jerks recently.

If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get a celestial resurrection.

Love the world With your heart's dreams. Serve the world With your life's promises.