Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

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.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

I am better than my reputation

Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

Your destiny isn't defined. You create it

America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up admiring.

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.