Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

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.

Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

our life does not belong to us any more, it is now the life of Jesus Christ that lives in us.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

In most marriages, there is a contented partner and a restless one.

To beat terrorism, there's only one candidate who can do it and it's Hillary Clinton.

I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.