If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

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 somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

We become what we deeply desire and think about most of the time

Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would be the reason you went back out of it.

When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.

deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Geography does not define you - love does.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.