If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

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.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.