I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

See how the Fates their gifts allot. For A is happy - B is not. Yet B is worthy I dare say Of more prosperity than A.

I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.

You must put fear out of your mind. Confront it with the belief that the past is over with, that a new life lies ahead.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

I was never a rail-thin person.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.