By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

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.

I have tried a lot of things in my life minus one thing ..and that is doubting God. I am so sure of Him that I know that whenever I surrender He kicks in and takes over.

Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.

An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.

If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on.

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.