Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.