Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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.

Where do you see conflict in this world? Only where there is infatuation (attachment).

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Being a hero is the easiest way to meet a bullet with your name on it.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.

You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.