All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it. That is the time all religions tell the truth - each of the other.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.