Nature doesn't cheat - people do.

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.

No effort is every wasted.

When you can see and reveal the amazing beauty of others, you will be the kind of person that attracts others.

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.

I have about as much artistic talent as a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs in a bag.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree, So scant of grass, so profligate of pines

Nought venture nought have.

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.