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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.