It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

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.

There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

If you want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, sleep 8 hours a night.

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.