The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

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.

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.

Bureaucratic nonsense at airports drives me crazy.

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

I'm just happy our nations are on the same page of keeping shitty reality TV on the air. Small world!

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.