One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.

But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.

Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.

another word for talent is obsession.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.