The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.

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.

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.

Something else has happened with computers.

It's not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course - you just follow the wounded.

Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.

Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

The only thing that I'm sure of is I don't know, but I know that positivity works.