Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

You may not be a great success when you are too busy with life and forget to love.

A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

The key to winning any general election in the USA is to excite your base and then expand your base - get independent voters and voters who haven't been voting for your party to come to your party.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.