“Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don’t pay attention.”

I don’t know anyone less Jesus like than Christians.

God knows life sucks. It’s right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, “I can’t take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me.”

I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

Ninety percent of people support background checks. Which means even people who can’t pass a background check support background checks.

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit.

Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we’re someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

There’s a phrase we live by in America: “In God We Trust”. It’s right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.

Emergency rooms will be used the way they were intended to be used: not for primary care, but for when the average freaky American get some strange object up his ass.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote.

The Drug War is an addiction, really.

In this country your guilty until proven wealthy.

False hope really makes you cynical.

It’s not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That’s predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

Winners don’t just learn the fundamentals, they master them. You have to monitor your fundamentals constantly because the only thing that changes will be your attention to them.

The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.