If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war..

Everybody is somewhere..

Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had f….

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots..

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences..

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders..

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless..

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials i….

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused..

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized..

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality..

Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself..

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so..

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy i….

Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage..

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics..

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What ….

Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unus….

Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no righ….

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical imp….

This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever..