If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone, ” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide TV. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that.

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.