When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.

Being a good example is the best form of service.

He was sixty years old

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.

Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Innovation = Inspiration + Perspiration + Perseverance.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

Mathematics is an art of human understanding.