Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

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.

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.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Dance is your words expressed with movement.

Where she ended, he began.

Keep a spur handy.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Pause and remember - Change will happen the moment you have the courage to change.

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

Read good, big important things.

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.