Love your friends and be just to your enemies.

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.

If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Hang with people who support and uplift you.

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.