The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

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.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

Will ye be wantin’ this now, madam?”“Yes, please, ” she whispered. She wanted to engrave the sight of him thus, about to make love to her, in her mind.

It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God

The direction of life is from duality to unity.

Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

If one or two works from a body of work for an exhibition are what you would like to be remembered by, it is a good exhibition.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.