Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

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.

Speak less and listen more.

Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Become aware of what you are thinking and you will recognize a law between your mood and your surrounding circumstances.

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.