What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.

Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.

The less you think, the more you believe.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Science is the poetry of reality.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her

Brave people believe in a higher power than themselves.

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

My family is the thing I miss most on the tour.