I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

I ran outta tears of sadness when I was 20 & all I got left is tears of joy.

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

But man does not create...he discovers.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

I'm married to my fans. I Love you all

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Document, evaluate, focus, test.