The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

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.

Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.

There's more to us than the moment we made a bad decision.

I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.