"Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive."

"So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world."

"True character arises from a deeper well than religion."

"But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture."

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

"The worst men often give the best advice."

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."

"Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it."