Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

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.

Needing to express what it’s like here.... / Trying to digest the incoming stream .... / And dream it all over again.

Freedom of inner thought bears sanctuary mind.Imagination's sight will never bare you blind~

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

First, you have to finish.

The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

It's not just our job to minister to other peoples' needs. We also have to minister to their potential.