Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

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.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Be at peace with yourself and with all men.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble it's what we know that ain't so.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.

When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them.

Nicki Minaj has a better booty; but I have better shoes.

Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.