I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

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.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

He was her enemy, and she hated him because she could not hate him enough.

Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.

I can't tell my self that I'm a serious actor. But I'm serious person.

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

With six small diamonds for his eyes He walks upon the summer skies, Drawing from his silken blouse The lacework of his dwelling house.

I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.