Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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.

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.

We don’t have time, we just have a moment in time.

Not to understand something is better than misunderstanding it.

God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.

Your spirit is the part of you that has to believe in something more. It's the light of you.

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to lose myself in a good book.

With all the traveling and promotion I've been doing for 'Murderball,' its been difficult keeping up with my rugby training.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.