In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

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.

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.

I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't know what he's doing.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.