The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell.

We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.

God is not described in equations.

All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

​Who gets to Live? You or Your Rules?

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

Dead yet?" Gus answered.I smirked. "Not yet, but the night's still young.""Here's hoping.

If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life.

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.