Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.

Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Life, when fully lived under a variety of cultural conditions, can be euphoric and optimistic; it can be a joy to experience and a wonder to behold.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.

Dark teaches...

The personality is determined by a variety of interventions that enter the head like big symbolic flags in the conquered soil which seldom knows its defeat.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

I like to sneak in under the radar. I don't have any paparazzi following me or have to deal with that stuff. I'm never in the tabloids. I prefer that.

I'm an extremist? I don't think so. I think people that call me an extremist are extremely brain dead and soulless.