Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

You can't force someone to care... You can only come to the realization that if you stay, they'll keep hurting you. I wish you the wisdom and courage to walk away and begin the healing process.

An institution needs more than one person to survive.

Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.

we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities

You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

It is necessary to study these words you have written, for the words have a longer history than you have and say more than you know.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

I was going to get my teeth whitened, but I said, "I'll just get a tan instead."

Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth.