Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.