Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

If life seems jolly rotten, There’s something you’ve forgotten.

Repeated words tend to become the outcomes of one's life in the course of time. So why not talk your way into success and happiness?

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Everybody needs four things in life: Something to do, someone to love, someone to believe in and something to hope for.

Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.

All my wife wanted for Valentine's Day was a little card - American Express.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.