Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

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.

We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on it.

Take care of your body

What are you staring at?""Rain drops on window glass is a sort of love-bite, is it not?

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

This blood feud is a bit too Shakespearean, if ye want the truth. I’m no Montague, and ye’re no Capulet.

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.