All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity.

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a cause which you understand not at all.

The unhappiness of people is due to their ignorance of nature.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.

Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.

We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.

All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.

Ambition that centers on the glory of God and welfare of the church is a mighty force for good.

Very early on I was interested in doing political art, but it was not feminist political art.

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.

The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace.

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

Hope will break your heart all over again.