It is time we admitted that we are not at war with “terrorism.” We are at war with Islam.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

Hope is a strange thing, not to mention a common prostitute name, ...

The only way to love God is by loving His people

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.

Day One of my life was the day I met you.

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.