Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

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 Holy Bible is the written code of holy teachings.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

With every new day come the Lord’s great love, grace and mercies.

At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!

Let’s face it. It’s already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.

No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you’ve got is the dough.

Only two can keep a secret if on of them is dead.