Richard Dawkins

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

Your dreams may have shattered, but that doesn’t mean they are over. They can still be turned into a mosaic of success.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists – talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.