There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

I'm from a small town where everybody always has something to say - you shouldn't sing secular music, you shouldn't do this or do that. A ton of "shouldn'ts."

I can do five things at once. I'm tapping my foot, I'm opening my mouth and talking to you, and looking at the bulletin board.

He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

There are a million examples of not feeling the jazz, but using the jazz.