Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

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.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

I really believe it's the old cliché, the more you give the more you receive. I'm living proof of that.

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.