When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.

Those who replace love in people’s life with bread, are deceitful, and call their deceit “pious”.

If we don't remember where we came from, we'll go back there.

You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

The greatest occupation is the act of writing.

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

The Internet has given us the illusion of intimacy. We read someone's books, articles, sermons, or watch their videos online, and we feel we know them, so why not share what we think is wrong? But that illusion of intimacy is just that – an illusion. It d