Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

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.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

The priest must teach the people, the fear of God.

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.

I do yoga every morning, then I run for half an hour and take a sauna.

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.

If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet.

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.