My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.

If you live life on your own terms it shouldn’t feel like a jail cell.

A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.

North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon