I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

But I still don't know what kind of monster was this god, until I saw that Jesus deliberately hid his light under a bushel. "Tell no one" was often his command.

We have to allow ourselves to feel it in order to heal it.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

I do mostly portraits. So it's just people's faces, not really any ideas.

Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

I don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of watching me celebrate, which would make it look like a big deal that I beat him.

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.