The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

My pursuit of science turns into a passion for spirituality.

I stood there in the doorway before you saw me and I watched you, ' he said.'And I watched the other girls. And they all looked as though their faces came out of one mold. Yours didn’t.

My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values.

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.