Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

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.

When it's possible for you to dream, it's not impossible to achieve.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

I am the best male ally I have ever heard of for women and women's liberation.

We make the patterns on the computer, but we also paint them by hand - it's a combination of digital and screen-prints. I'm trying to do as much as I can myself in the studio.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn't yet understood the first thing about it.

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.