It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.

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.

Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!

Faith is the force of action.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

I glanced at my mate- the male who had always presented me with a choice not as a gift, but as my own gods-given right.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

There is no other way to know good from evil, right from wrong, unless we have His Word dwelling richly in our heart. It's good for us to spend time in His Word.

Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities.