If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

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.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.