If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.

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.

We can show what we hide but we can't hide what we show.

A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up. :)

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

A liar freely gives his oath

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.