I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?

Religion may indeed inspire acts of great kindness and courage. But it also trains people to believe things for which there is no evidence. This makes religion's intrusion into the political sphere all the more troubling.

My father felt that children should make their own way.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.