Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

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.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Dhoni Is My Hero. We talk a lot about Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, But this boy has as much talent as anyone in the game

If you are noticing what you appreciate and noticing what you are grateful for, you can't be noticing what you don't like.

Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.