Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults.

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.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?

The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance.

Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

I count my blessings every single day that I am an American.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

Actors, after all, dream.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.