This individual is regularly nominated not only by himself but by others as well: by the ordinary townsfolk who beg him to save their town, their wor… - Eric Maisel

As atheists we have the opportunity to be more honest about the blues that we experience...We get to honestly look at the thing itself and not shift the issue to our relationship to some nonexistent god.

You nominate yourself to be the one who will courageously do what you think ought to be done, even if everyone is pressing you to do something else.

The rose’s fragrance, the garden’s lushness, and the night sky’s grandeur affect us because we are built to appreciate beauty and to experience awe. To leap to a supernatural source for these powerful but ordinary feelings is to indulge in wishful thinking, romantic embellishment, and metaphoric fantasizing.