We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? Who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.

To worship a crocodile is better to worship yourself.