I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Hu-man, Hu-mility, Hu-manity, is a title of nobility of the Perfected One, one who has knowledge of its self, and living its essence

Men are good when they get lost in the beauty of love.

By loving the broken parts in you, I learn to love the broken parts in me. I learn that we are not broken after all.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.

It's important to feel good.

My life is really based around my house and my friends and my family at the moment, and has been for a while now.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.