It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

I don't believe in God because certain reasons and arguments weigh more heavily in my mind than others, not because I have willfully decided to reject my creator, as many religious people seem to think. I could no more simply decide to believe in God than I could decide to like beetroot, just like that.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

Constructive complaint requires only two things: that what you are complaining about should be different, and that it can be different. It sounds simple, but too often our protests fail this test.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.