If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

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.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Pride makes us artificial

Time is wasted when it is not being converted

It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

The UN is hardly democratic.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.