"One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue."

"I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."

"Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R."

"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."

"A humble soul understands that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."

"For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel."