I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

I like to control my own personal life.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

Dennis Prager

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Freya Stark

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

Harriet Harman

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

Kurt Vonnegut

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.

Starhawk

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

John Berger, And Our Faces, My H

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'.

Richard Dawkins

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Arthur Koestler

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

David Mitchell

Hope is a very thin diet.

Thomas Shadwell