Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

Experience is by industry achiev'd, And perfected by the swift course of time.

I didn't know how to let you go.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

It's difficult to talk about Pele because I didn't see him.

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.