The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive.

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.

We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim, and we should be honest about it.

We are all prisoners of our thoughts.

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?