Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.