Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

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.

You can seize away my opportunities but never the passion that I possess.

You have more power over your mind than you realize. The time to strengthen it is now.

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

God help anyone who messes with the Virals!

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

One good turn deserves another.