Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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.

Within the eye, mysteries of the soul burn deeply beneath the fiery chasms of love and patiently wait for an awakening ...

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!