If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

I often cry, not from sadness, from the joy of the miraculous beauty of life.

I wonder are we the people really that high on these political agenda’s these day’s? Or are we merely pawns in the majestic Game of Thrones?

There is indeed one person who can help solve “writer’s block”. His name is Mr Johnnie Walker.

I try to tell a story musically in a song.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away

Thou art true and honest as a dog.

if a real God were actually so vain as to constantly demand worship, then he would not be worth it.