The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We can’t.

You don't get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don't know.

Jesus Christ—who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens—can now be eaten in the form of a cracker

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn't, we will kill you.

As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.

Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.

All I am and all I have is at the service of my country.